You cannot eat all of the pastries in the baking shop at once!

"Women today are encouraged by some to have it all: money, travel, marriage, motherhood, and separate careers in the world... However, you cannot do all these things well at the same time. You cannot eat all of the pastries in the baking shop at once. You will get a tummyache. You cannot be a 100-percent wife, a 100-percent mother, a 100-percent church worker, a 100-percent career person, and a 100-percent public-service person at the same time. How can all of these roles be coordinated? I suggest that you can have it sequentially. Sequentially is a big word meaning to do things one at a time at different times. The book of Ecclesiastes says: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”

I saw this quote on another pregnancy blog I read. I thought it was the perfect quote for life right now. I firmly believe I have learned a valuable lesson over the last couple of months: You can't do it all to 100% everyday and you have to come to peace with that as a woman.